Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 Nov 2018 11:55:24 -0500 | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] x86/static_call: Add inline static call implementation for x86-64 |
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On Thu, 29 Nov 2018 08:50:16 -0800 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> Instead, I'd suggest: > > - just restart the instruction (with the suggested "ptregs->rip --") > > - to avoid any "oh, we're not making progress" issues, just fix the > instruction yourself to be the right call, by looking it up in the > "what needs to be fixed" tables.
So basically this will cause the code to go into a spin while we are doing the update, right?
-- Steve
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